About David Kassin Fried
David Kassin Fried wrote his first essay in second grade. After days of hard work and meticulous preparation, he brought it to his dad to proofread … and about fifteen minutes later, David was on the floor in tears, begging his father to stop. The pages he had worked so diligently to fill now had more red ink on them than black, and he would eventually go back to the computer and hunt and peck his way to a complete rewrite of my first major paper.
By eighth grade David was proofreading his father’s work. He was also acting professionally on the London stage alongside Judd Hirsch in the London premier of Herb Gardner’s Conversations with My Father, directed by Alan Ayckbourn. In 1999 he began attending the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-TV-Film and English and took every opportunity to write anything and everything from plays to essays.
After three years as a “responsible adult,” David decided to leave the sanctity of the day-job and strike out on his own as a freelance writer. His first project: Childhood, an animated sitcom parodying the Dick & Jane easy readers of the 1950s. The series was created by the largest licensed t-shirt manufacturer in the world, based on a line of merchandise that has sold $15 million in revenue (and counting). After a few months working on this and other projects, he created DKF Writing Services, a full service writing and editing company that offers expertise in all varieties of business and creative writing and editing: Web content, technical documentation, grant proposals, book & magazine articles, and more.
Ups & Downs is David’s first book. He’s currently developing a screenplay and runs The Writer’s Review, a blog about mastering the art of writing.
